DID YOU KNOW?

The idea of Jio was first seeded by his daughter, Isha, 26, in 2011. As a Yale University student, she was home on vacation and said “the internet in our house sucks” as she couldn’t submit her coursework, spurring Ambani to work on a fourth-generation telecom network

SECRET AMBITION Before father Dhirubhai brought him into Reliance, Mukesh wanted to either work at the World Bank or teach at a university

BEST BUDDY Close confidant Manoj Modi is a serial builder of large projects for Reliance, including the Hazira petrochemical complex, the Jamnagar refinery, the first telecom business, Reliance Retail and, eventually, Reliance Jio. Interestingly, his card bears no designation

MOST EMBARRASSING

MOMENT When, in August 2017, the government slapped a Rs 1,700 crore penalty on RIL and partner BP PLC for producing less than the targeted natural gas from KG-D6 fields in 2015-16